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Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty (Paperback)
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Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty (Paperback)
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What does it mean to be a free citizen in times of war and tyranny?
What kind of education is needed to be a 'first' or leading citizen
in a strife-filled country? And what does it mean to be free when
freedom is forcibly opposed? These concerns pervade Thomas More's
earliest writings, writings mostly unknown, including his 280
poems, declamation on tyrannicide, coronation ode for Henry VIII
and his life of Pico della Mirandola, all written before Richard
III and Utopia. This book analyzes those writings, guided
especially by these questions: Faced with generations of civil war,
what did young More see as the causes of that strife? What did he
see as possible solutions? Why did More spend fourteen years after
law school learning Greek and immersed in classical studies? Why do
his early works use vocabulary devised by Cicero at the end of the
Roman Republic?
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